RICHARD WATTS
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Insect Writing

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30" x 36", and 32" x 78"
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Exhibit opening, "Insect writing" series, Tom Thomson Museum, 2019
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28" x 34"
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28" x 34" each panel (total grid, like an aerial landscape of fields, jazz compositions, wind movements, or hieroglyphics. Dark panels carbonized. 84" x 108")
Details.
Chain saw marks and insect patterns.
Isn't it amazing how pine beetles carve images of their own bodies?
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"Human Writing, Nature's Writing"  Oak Heights Art Gallery, 2021
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Process.
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"Ghost Forest" mockup for THEMUSEUM, Kitchener, Ontario, 2024
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  • about the artist
  • earth etchings
    • recent / developing exhibitions
    • process
    • gallery >
      • canoe people
      • boat
      • insect writing
      • tree
      • rock
      • mason house and objects
  • sculpture and installation
    • forest shells and wasp nests
    • ark
    • salmon run and vessel
    • plan
    • herd and pipeline
    • nomads
    • canoe
  • developing projects
    • developing projects
    • community art
  • contact